Those interested in contributing can submit their stories via Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with the hashtag #aspokendish.

It is a modern approach of the age old tradition of passing down stories to younger generations.

“It’s difficult to balance the web’s want for short content with the SFA’s want to deliver stories of substance about Southern food culture,” John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the Univ. of Mississippi, told NPR’s food blog The Salt.